Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Blencoe, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Blencoe who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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